It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

In the quest for understanding the cosmos, every question answered leads to a dozen more.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one than is in the power of any man to perform.