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.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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.