It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.

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

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.