Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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!
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.