Astronomy Is Not The Apex

Many Theories Of The Ancient World Seem Terribly Childish Today, A Hodge-podge Of Fables And False Comparisons.but Our Theories Will Seem Childish Five-hundred Years From Now.every Theory Is Based On Some Analogy, And Sooner Or Later The Theory Fails Because The Analogy Turns Out To Be False. A Theory In Its Day Helps To Solve The Problems Of The Day.

We Gain Our Ends Only With The Laws Of Nature; We Control Her Only By Understanding Her Laws.

It Is Not The Business Of Science To Inherit The Earth, But To Inherit The Moral Imagination; Because Without That, Man And Beliefs And Science Will Perish Together.

It Doesn't Matter Whether You're Talking About Bombs Or The Intelligence Quotients Of One Race As Against Another If A Man Is A Scientist, Like Me, He'll Always Say Publish And Be Damned.

Man Is Not The Most Majestic Of The Creatures; Long Before The Mammals Even, The Dinosaurs Were Far More Splendid. But He Has What No Other Animal Possesses: A Jigsaw Of Faculties, Which Alone, Over Three Thousand Million Years Of Life, Made Him Creative. Every Animal Leaves Traces Of What He Was. Man Alone Leaves Traces Of What He Created.