We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.