The Present Is The Past

In This Country, There Is An Opportunity For The Development Of Man's Intellectual, Cultural, And Spiritual Potentialities That Has Never Existed Before In The History Of Our Species. I Mean Not Simply An Opportunity For Greatness For A Few, But An Opportunity For Greatness For The Many.

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious.

I Don't Mind Conducting The Orchestra If I Can Play The Violin.

If You Sense A Deep Human Need, Then You Go Back To All The Basic Science. If There Is Some Missing, Then You Try To Do More Basic Science And Applied Science Until You Get It. So You Make The System To Fulfill That Need, Rather Than Starting The Other Way Around, Where You Have Something And Wonder What To Do With It.