Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
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.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
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 educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
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.