Real patriots ask questions.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

To read is to voyage through time.