Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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 think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
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.
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.