You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.
To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.
But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.
The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is
Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.
Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. . . . I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right.
The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.