No philosopher allows his opinions to be swayed by facts—he would be kicked out of his guild. Theologians, the lot of them. - Robert A. Heinlein

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

You know that color does not matter to me. I want to know other things about a man. Is his word good? Does he meet his obligations? Does he do honest work? Is he brave? Will he stand up and be counted?

Rotation through a fourth dimension can’t affect a three-dimensional figure any more than you can shake letters off a printed page.