The name we give to bright ideas
by John from John D. Cook on (#CPJD)
From The Book of Strange New Things:
" I said that if science could come up with something like the Jump it could surely solve a problem like that. Severin seized hold of that word, "science." Science, he said, is not some mysterious larger-than-life force, it's just the name we give to bright ideas that individual guys have when they're lying in bed at night, and that if the fuel thing bothered me so much, there was nothing stopping me from having a bright idea to solve it "