“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
“Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
“Achievement is talent plus preparation”
“involution always precedes evolution”
“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”
“To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”