The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

not responding verbally isn't necessarily being passive. we are communicating on many levels simultaneously

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.