To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.