It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.