I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.