Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.
Humor was the enemy of desire.
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.
I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course; chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.