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Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life’s pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with — no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.

“Free will again,” Cathy said.

“Or free won’t,” Peterson said mildly.

Religions do not teach doubt.

That thing doesn’t care about you. It won’t reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That’s the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn’t care. Remember.

You got to learn to wait people out. Hear what they got to say. Not enough to have a majority rule, y’know. Otherwise, the minority won’t be convinced and they won’t support the plan. No point havin’ people at your elbow who’re against what you’re doin’. So we just got to talk it out Quaker-style till ever’body agrees. More efficient in the long run.

If you were damned certain you weren’t looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn’t see it.

The past was a jigsaw puzzle and you never had all the pieces.

“One of the laws of nature,” Gordon said, “is that half the people have got to be below average.”

”For a Gaussian distribution, yeah,” Cooper said. “Sad, though.”

Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.