Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
Edward AbbeyToo many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.
Edward AbbeyQuantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.
Edward Abbey