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.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.