...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

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.

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