All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.