When We're Born, We Want To Know

There Are So Many Wonders Awaiting Us. If We Can Upload Memories, Then We Might Be Able To Combat Alzheimers, As Well As Create A Brain-net Of Memories And Emotions To Replace The Internet, Which Would Revolutionize Entertainment, The Economy, And Our Way Of Life. Maybe Even To Help Us Live Forever, And Send Consciousness Into Outer Space.

If You Want To See A Black Hole Tonight, Tonight Just Look In The Direction Of Sagittarius, The Constellation. That's The Center Of The Milky Way Galaxy And There's A Raging Black Hole At The Very Center Of That Constellation That Holds The Galaxy Together.

After That Cancellation [of The Superconducting Super Collider In Texas, After $2 Billion Had Been Spent On It], We Physicists Learned That We Have To Sing For Our Supper. ... The Cold War Is Over. You Can't Simply Say "russia!" To Congress, And They Whip Out Their Checkbook And Say, "how Much?" We Have To Tell The People Why This Atom-smasher Is Going To Benefit Their Lives.

‎by 2100, Our Destiny Is To Become Like The Gods We Once Worshipped And Feared. But Our Tools Will Not Be Magic Wands And Potions But The Science Of Computers, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, And Most Of All, The Quantum Theory.

I Often Think That We Are Like The Carp Swimming Contentedly In That Pond. We Live Out Our Lives In Our Own "pond," Confident That Our Universe Consists Of Only The Familiar And The Visible. We Smugly Refuse To Admit That Parallel Universes Or Dimensions Can Exist Next To Ours, Just Beyond Our Grasp. If Our Scientists Invent Concepts Like Forces, It Is Only Because They Cannot Visualize The Invisible Vibrations That Fill The Empty Space Around Us. Some Scientists Sneer At The Mention Of Higher Dimensions Because They Cannot Be Conveniently Measured In The Laboratory.