I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
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.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
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.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.