In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.


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ROBERT J. LIGHTNER
The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, tw...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory...
ROBERT J. ALLISON
One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thank...
J. ROBERT MOSKIN
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
To be a success, you will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If the...
ROBERT J. BRAATHE
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.
ROBERT J. MORRISSETTE
Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At wh...
J. ROBERT MOSKIN
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scient...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for th...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot o...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for t...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy...
ROBERT J. FISHER
The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON
In order to get people to love you, you've got to get some people to hate you
ROBERT J. BRAATHE
I have no intentions of resigning.
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, a...
ROBERT J. FISHER
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Forth & Towne was a great test of a promising concept and an illustration of the innovative risk...
ROBERT J. FISHER
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to...
ROBERT J. ALLISON
To the confusion of our enemies.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the firs...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT
When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT