If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
Committees do harm merely by existing.
A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.
The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.