Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
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 intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational mind is a faithful servant.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.