The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
When I got my PhD it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs if they were lucky in any kind of science.
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far but...
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...
