The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.