The diagnosis of homosexuality as a “disorder” is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill…. Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. – Ronald Gold, c.1975
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didnt see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education. – Clyde Tombaugh
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz