Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.