If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

Open your heart and find your Destiny

Healing is too big a topic for any one person to know it all.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.