"Eureka!"s like the one Archimedes had when he stepped in a bathtub and suddenly realized the answer to the problem of testing metals' density are few and far between, and mostly it's just trying and f..."
- Connie Willis
"The teacher is a catalyst to convert information from a high energy state (list of facts) to a low energy state (visual concept associated with known concepts)."
- Peter Rogers
"We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary i..."
- M..
"The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings."
- Don DeLillo