Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
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.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.