The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.