No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
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.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.