Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
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.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
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.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.