Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
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.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
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.
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.
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.