Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
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.
If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”