The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.