“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”

“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”

“This was the very limit beyond which none of them had ever speculated, or even known that there was any speculation to be done.”

“You'll have a national Philosopher's strike on your hands!”

“He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”

“The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly *why* the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.”