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!
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.