To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational mind is a faithful servant.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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!