The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Wars come and go

Intelligence in a spouse is a timeless quality.

You see Jesus wrecked my life

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

It seems like my whole life I've been this little Canadian kid dreaming somebody would give me a chance.