"Between a man and a woman both aged fifty there are two full generations, for she might well wed a man in his seventies, and he a girl of twenty."

"So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance."

"Why, if all that were so — if the enterprise were to be a failure from the start — was there any sense in starting it? "Ah," the Lord said, "you do not get the point. There is a Remnant there that you…"

"A hundred years ago, it became clear that most events at the level of the subatomic are random, uncaused, indeterministic quantum events—merely matters of probability. Locate an electron on one side o…"

"There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame e…"