Rob Rey > Rob's Quotes

“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate. Figuring out a prudent balance takes wisdom.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
― Karl R. Popper