Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational mind is a faithful servant.
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.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.