In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

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

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

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

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

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

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.