Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
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.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.