Carl Took On The Military-industrial Complex. He

Science Reserves The Highest Reward For Those Of You Who Disprove Our Most Cherished Beliefs. At Any Moment Someone From Any Walk Of Life Could Come Forward And Be Responsible For A Complete Revision Of Our View Of Everything.

It Takes A Fearless, Unflinching Love And Deep Humility To Accept The Universe As It Is. The Most Effective Way He Knew To Accomplish That, The Most Powerful Tool At His Disposal, Was The Scientific Method, Which Over Time Winnows Out Deception. It Can't Give You Absolute Truth Because Science Is A Permanent Revolution, Always Subject To Revision, But It Can Give You Successive Approximations Of Reality.

I Guess I So Desperately Want To See Us Put This Planet Right. It's So Horrifying To Me That A Fifth Of Us Are Starving Every Night, And That Forty Thousand Children Die Every Single Day.

We May Be Living At That Moment, On The Cusp, When We Go From Being A Species That Feels A Kind Of Loneliness In The Cosmos To Actually One Sometime In The Not Too Distant Future Being Able To Confirm The Existence Of Other Intelligent Life.

My Knowledge Of Science Came From Being With Carl, Not From Formal Academic Training. Carl Gave Me A Thrilling Tutorial In Science And Math That Lasted The 20 Years We Were Together.