Georg C. Lichtenberg

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.