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.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
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 counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
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.