“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.”
“The best things happen to people who make the best of things that happen to them.”
“The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten”
“Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.”
“If it weren't for the people, the god-damn people' said Finnerty, 'always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren't for them, the world would be an engineer's paradise.”