If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.