In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
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.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.