“I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked h...” — Graham Hawkes Quote

“I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.”

“Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.”

“Science is about filling in the details.”

“I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else, and I don't have great language, highfalutin' language - I'm very ordinary. So I figure if I write about myself, other people with similar feelings and experiences would go, 'Oh, that's me.'”

“A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”