Never memorize something that you can look up.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
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.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
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.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.