One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.