“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
