I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Never memorize something that you can look up.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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.
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.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.