For, After All, In Science

For, After All, In Science One Achieves The Greatest Impact (and Often The Greatest Headlines) Not By Going Along With The Herd, But By Bucking Against It.

Neutrinos Alone, Among All The Known Particles, Have Ethereal Properties That Are Striking And Romantic Enough Both To Have Inspired A Poem By John Updike And To Have Sent Teams Of Scientists Deep Underground For 50 Years To Build Huge Science-fiction-like Contraptions To Unravel Their Mysteries.

For Many, To Live In A Universe That May Have No Purpose, And No Creator, Is Unthinkable.

A Truly Open Mind Means Forcing Our Imaginations To Conform To The Evidence Of Reality, And Not Vice Versa.

The Real Thing That Physics Tell Us About The Universe Is That It's Big, Rare Event Happens All The Time — Including Life — And That Doesn't Mean It's Special.