The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.