People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
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.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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.
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.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.