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.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.