It was obvious that insufficient education was a serious handicap. - Michael Kurland

“How are you on the high wire?”
“Wire walking? It’s simple. Any child of ten can do it—with about fourteen years practice.

I don't want to color my facts with my suppositions," he said. "My facts are the results of good, reliable magic. My suppositions are just that—suppositions—and may be totally wrong.

Life and the life processes are but an unimportant part of the whole that is the universe; intelligence and the designs of intelligence but a pattern drawn on sand. And yet that pattern which is life can pull into its weave much that is not of life, and give it a reason, a function, and a purpose that transcends the life that made it, in all physical measures of mass, distance, and duration.
So is entropy thwarted in some small measure, in random pockets throughout the universe.