Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.