Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.