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

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.

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.

The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.

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

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.