Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”
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.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
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.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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.