“Though I've often made fun of the scientists, they’ve freed us forever from the stagnation that was overtaking your race.”

“Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.”

“You don't have to be a scientist – you don't have to play the Bunsen burner – in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.”

“The world’s been waiting, they’ve been
waiting for years
And they’ve just gotta hear it
The kids are waiting, they’ve been shedding tears
So open your arms and sing for us”

“They’ve offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.”

“Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.”

“We're capable of great things. And I've no doubt that the creature that follows us will be capable of even more. Evolution didn't stop with us: "Oh great and beautiful mankind! We've made it!" We haven't. Evolution can go on forever.”

“Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart.”

“The white race is "a race that travels forever on an upward path."”

“I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time.”