Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
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.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
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 counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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.