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!
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.