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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, 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.

In This Sense, Science, As Physicist Steven Weinberg Has Emphasized, Does Not Make It Impossible To Believe In God, But Rather Makes It Possible To Not Believe In God.

The One Experience That I Hope Every Student Has At Some Point In Their Lives Is To Have Some Belief You Profoundly, Deeply Hold, Proved To Be Wrong Because That Is The Most Eye-opening Experience You Can Have, And As A Scientist, To Me, Is The Most Exciting Experience I Can Ever Have.

My Area Of Research Is Something That In All Fairness Has No Practical Usability Whatsoever And The Thing Is I'm Often Asked To Apologize For That. It Is Interesting To Me That People Ask 'what's The Point Of Doing That If It's Not Useful?' But They Never Ask That, Or Do They Very Rarely Ask That About Art Or Literature Or Music. Those Things Are Not Gonna Produce A Better Toaster.