“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.