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.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
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.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.