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.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.