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.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational mind is a faithful servant.
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.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
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.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.