Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for Eternity because, for some reason he did not un… - Isaac Asimov

"Frankly," said Trevize, "it's annoying not to know the pronoun to use in connection with the creature. It impedes thought and conversation to hesitate forever at the pronoun." "But that's the fault of our language," said Bliss, "and not of Fallom."

Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.

Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one — Marie, the famous Madame Curie — and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.