I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Without ethics, science would be cruelty.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

I wanna keep America safe.

Women are equal because they are not different any more.

I think God always has the best for us.

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