Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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.
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 of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.