An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
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.