We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
