To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

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.