An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
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.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.