I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.