Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off...
Grant liked kids-it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums as they stared open-mouthed at the big skeletons rising above them....
It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.
And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are-how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay...
The kids I see are lazy. Nobody wants to work. I teach physics. It takes years to master. But all the kids want to dress like Charlie Sheen and make a million dollars before they're twenty-eight. The...
And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.
His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able...
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every...
We are destined to live with worries, swallow sorrows, suppress anger, or let it out with laughter, jokes, and comic anecdotes.
Love: It may be madness or illness, but in any case it represents happiness at its peak.
I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to...
Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai {Naval...
She'll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly.
There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.
I could dodge the kick, but the stable door was already down - and I hadn't even realised it until I saw the splinters.
How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it?
We all had parts to play, we all had costumes to wear, we all had to be as merry as we could be, for the King was always laughing this winter and the Queen never stopped smiling.
She had had to weave love with memories...
He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting....
What to do when attacked at sea, lessons one to ten. They had spent their first morning at sea being trained, remorselessly, by Francis Crawford for this precise event. 'I know what to do,' said...
Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.
If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
Hey, Axi. What's the difference between a doctor and a lawyer?" I knew this joke-it was one of Robinson's standards. And I was only half-surprised he was trotting it out now. Playing along, I said, "I...
Don't ever leave me again, I said in a tiny voice.I won't, he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. I won't. Not ever.
and the moral of that is -Be what you would seem to be- or if you'd like it put more simply -Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might...
To be numb to the world is another form of suicide.
{When} he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and...
How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears,With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
Come here and lie on your stomach. I know how to give Swedish massages. It'll relax you.""You're not Swedish," I say."Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
