We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.