“God, that dumping ground of our dreams.”
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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
