He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Anything that happens, happens.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.