Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.
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.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.