Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.

Science at that time was looking at fragmented pieces of a big picture. Scientists were looking at technologies to increase crop yields. The science behind agriculture was focused on that piece of the picture.

I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand.