The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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.
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.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.