My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

I'm not politically correct.