Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.