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!
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
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.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.