I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.
I'm not trying to say that I'm sick of Supernatural in any way, nor am I sick of my character, because he changes all the time; it's just nice to do something different.
Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom you would never meet, even if you laid traps or advertised for them. Not only do you met them, but you also unmeet them, all in the space of, it often seems, a mere compacted evening. As there is so little time, bodies in motion drop their guard and immediately get on with their stories. Then the proverbial ships part, each to its destination, never again to brush each other's wake.
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.