The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
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.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.