“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”– Edgar Allan Poe Related Quotes “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.”— David Langford “It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”– Konrad Lorenz “I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that’s really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it’s very different. You’re out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn’t that fascinating.”– Barbara Ehrenreich