A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at truth.
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Resistance, however, is useless.
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I...
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics...
