“Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.”

“But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me.”

“Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing; none of it is ever very interesting though.”

“There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said."So?""If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time.”

“Learning science is not just learning facts, or even procedures. Science is a discourse-a way of conversing-with an epistemological frame:how to we know? Why do we think so?And I tell that that, yes, you can do this by yourself-have a conversation-but you have to learn to do it first. And its' much easier to learn to do it with a peer rather than an instructor. With an instructor you expect them to "know" the answer and, even if they won't give it to you directly, you expect them to be right. In a science dialog none of you "know" what's right. You're all trying to figure it out.”

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”