No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world