"A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy."

-- George Wald

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“Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.”
“I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.”
“Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.”
“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”
“Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?”
“Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”
“It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.”
“Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.”

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