Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.