Немає нічого, що повинно бути правдою, але все повинно звучати правдиво. - Isaac Asimov

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.

if the society were itself abnormal and did not understand the importance of preserving the environment." "Surely," said Pelorat, "such a society would quickly be destroyed. I don't think it would be possible for human beings to fail to understand the importance of retaining the very factors that are keeping them alive." Bliss said, "I don't have your pleasant faith in human reason, Pel. It seems to me to be quite conceivable that when a planetary society consists only of Isolates, local and even individual concerns might easily be allowed to overcome planetary concerns.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.