“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God ...” — Dorothy L. Sayers Quote

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.”

“I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”

“While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.”

“The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.”

“She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.”

“The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.”

“What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.”

“n those cultures lacking unfamiliar challenges, external or internal, where fundamental change is unneeded, novel ideas need not be encouraged. Indeed, heresies can be declared dangerous; thinking can be rigidified; and sanctions against impermissible ideas can be enforced -- all without much harm. But under varied and changing environmental or biological or political circumstances, simply copying the old ways no longer works. Then, a premium awaits those who, instead of blandly following tradition, or trying to foist their preferences on to the physical or social Universe, are open to what the Universe teaches.”

“Nature is the greatest laboratory, where science discovers its secrets and technology shapes its future.”

“The new Pandora's boxes of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics are almost open, yet we seem hardly to have noticed.”

“For those wondering why we are here,”