The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
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 saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.