I try to show respect to everyone until they prove they are unwilling to reciprocate that respect. Every once in a while, however, I stop showing respect after hearing something horrendously stupid come out of someone's mouth.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
