I Believed In Realism, As Summarized By

You Don't Understand Anything Until You Learn It More Than One Way.

Kubrick's Vision Seemed To Be That Humans Are Doomed, Whereas Clarke's Is That Humans Are Moving On To A Better Stage Of Evolution.

An Ethicist Is Somebody Who Sees Something Wrong With Whatever You Have In Mind.

This Is A Tricky Domain Because, Unlike Simple Arithmetic, To Solve A Calculus Problem - And In Particular To Perform Integration - You Have To Be Smart About Which Integration Technique Should Be Used: Integration By Partial Fractions, Integration By Parts, And So On.

It Would Be As Useless To Perceive How Things 'actually Look' As It Would Be To Watch The Random Dots On Untuned Television Screens.