Astronomy Is Not The Apex Of Science

No Science Is Immune To The Infection Of Politics And The Corruption Of Power.

Science Is A Very Human Form Of Knowledge. We Are Always At The Brink Of The Known; We Always Feel Forward For What Is To Be Hoped. Every Judgment In Science Stands On The Edge Of Error And Is Personal. Science Is A Tribute To What We Can Know Although We Are Fallible.

The Richness Of Human Life Is That We Have Many Lives, We Live The Events That Do Not Happen (and Some That Cannot) As Vividly As Those That Do, And If Thereby We Die A Thousand Deaths, That Is The Price We Pay...

The Most Powerful Drive In The Ascent Of Man Is His Pleasure In His Own Skill. He Loves To Do What He Does Well And, Having Done It Well, He Loves To Do It Better. You See It In His Science. You See It In The Magnificence With Which He Carves And Builds, The Loving Care, The Gaiety, The Effrontery. The Monuments Are Supposed To Commemorate Kings And Religions, Heroes, Dogmas, But In The End The Man They Commemorate Is The Builder.

The Problem Of Values Arises Only When Men Try To Fit Together Their Need To Be Social Animals With Their Need To Be Free Men. There Is No Problem, And There Are No Values, Until Men Want To Do Both. If An Anarchist Wants Only Freedom, Whatever The Cost, He Will Prefer The Jungle Of Man At War With Man. And If A Tyrant Wants Only Social Order, He Will Create The Totalitarian State.