If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
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.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.