Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.