What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic. ' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
Neurons that fire together wire together.
As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.
I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody
The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.
A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to look at the wall in an attempt to avoid it. But if you keep focusing on what you fear, that's exactly where you'll end up. Professional racers know that we unconsciously steer in the direction of our focus, so with their lives on the line, they turn their focus away from the wall and towards the open track.
You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.