Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few.