Time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
