Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.