I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.