If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.