Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational mind is a faithful servant.