Russell Smith

Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.