Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.

Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

The UK crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.