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.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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.
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.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.