He was getting to be a little old for combat or for princesses, but what was worse, he had become a lot more cynical without having become even sligh… - James Blish

The early anatomists, who laid the foundations of scientific medicine, were primarily artists; the early psychotherapists, like Freud, were primarily poets. Neither group ever cured anything, but each opened up a previously forbidden area of investigation. Both were retired to the sidelines when really hardcore knowledge began to be available.

A common thief with a gun in his hand isn’t half as dangerous as an engineer with a stick of dynamite.

No exercise of will can make any of us other than what we are, or more than marginally better than who we are.