A Disappointment Is Not Generally An Oversight.

But Restraint Is The Only One Sort Of Control, And Absence Of Restraint Isn't Freedom. It's Not Control That's Lacking When One Feels 'free', But The Objectionable Control Of Force.

Science Is A Willingness To Accept Facts Even When They Are Opposed To Wishes.

We Do Not Choose Survival As A Value, It Chooses Us.

Some Of Us Learn Control, More Or Less By Accident. The Rest Of Us Go All Our Lives Not Even Understanding How It Is Possible, And Blaming Our Failure On Being Born The Wrong Way.

The Alphabet Was A Great Invention, Which Enabled Men To Store And To Learn With Little Effort What Others Had Learned The Hard Way-that Is, To Learn From Books Rather Than From Direct, Possibly Painful, Contact With The Real World.