Between the ages of five and nine I was almost perpetually at war with the educational system. ...As soon as I learned from my mother that there was … - Fred Hoyle

The two men were mentally too dissimilar for more than a half hour of conversation between them to be possible.

Viewed from a wholly logical point of view the bearing and rearing of children is a thoroughly unattractive proposition. To a woman it means pain and endless worry. To a man it means extra work extending over many years to support his family. So, if we were wholly logical about sex, we should probably not bother to reproduce at all. Nature takes care of this by making us utterly and wholly irrational.

Once the spark was struck the story would spread like wildfire, and would be in the papers in next to no time. The Director had never had any cause to think highly of newspaper reporters, particularly of their scientific accuracy.