Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

I don't get even, I get odder.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

other kids pack lunch

Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'