What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
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.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.