To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

People think of education as something that they can finish.