A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse. - Robert A. Heinlein

We are all free—to walk our appointed paths. Just as a stone is free to fall when you toss it into the air. No one is free in the abstract meaning you give the word.

In this complex world, science, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going. If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

There is one thing no head of a country can know, and that is: how good is his intelligence system? He finds out only by having it fail him.