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.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.- Tara Daniels -

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Because I loved myself, I was loved.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

Tomorrow I'll get over you if I just get through tonight.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.