I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
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.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.