You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
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.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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.