Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.