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.
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.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.