Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Never mistake motion for action.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.