Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.