The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.