Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. - Robert A. Heinlein

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

At fourteen months he began speaking in sentences, short and of his own structure, but sentences. The subjects of his conversation, or, rather, his statements, were consistently egocentric. Normal again—no one expects an infant to write essays on the beauties of altruism.

Quantum mechanics and Schrödinger’s cat tossed out the clockwork world of 1890 and replaced it with a fog of probability in which anything could happen. Of course the intellectual class did not notice this for many decades, as an intellectual is a highly educated man who can’t do arithmetic with his shoes on, and is proud of the lack.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse — -and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.