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.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
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.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Every cause produces more than one effect.