(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. - Gregory Benford

Once introduced into this world, life would never leave—there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.

Professors everywhere deplored examinations as an archaic technique, a fossil that recalled little red schoolhouses and memorizing the capitals of all the states. Regular progress and daily diligence mattered more, they felt, not an hour spent compressing months of learning onto a few sheets of paper. Far better to stress homework, classroom participation and the professor’s judgment. Regrettably, the large size of classes, and the requirements of society itself for pseudo-objective standards kept the exam structure firmly in place.

We will be just like the USA. Only we will be more honest." "We've got two parties." "No you do not. You have only the party of the banks, of the money men, and they divide it into two pieces for your voting.