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.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
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.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Never mistake motion for action.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.