Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.