Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
We are what we repeatedly do.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.