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 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!
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
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.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
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.
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.