He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

After all, if you had the complete decision process, you could run it as an AI, and I'd be coding it up right now.

There's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather find ourselvesimpelled to say that it must be dark outside.

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.