Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
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.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.