A human being is seldom bothered with insufficient data; often the less he has the more willing he is to give a firm opinion; and man prefers some an… - Mark Clifton

Early in his career Hoskins had realized that no field of science is remote from the affairs of men, that there is a sociological implication inherent even in the simple set of screwing a nut on a bolt.

Instant acceptance of an idea is as self-defeating as instant rejection.

To say that man has already achieved the ultimate and absolute truth is like a tribal taboo which says that a given river may never be crossed because the witch doctor proves beyond all reason that there is only chaos beyond.
The most puzzling of all contradictory concepts given me is the human will to set up such arbitrary limits to his comprehension.