Why Do I Want To Believe What

A Mistake Is A Future Benefit, The Full Value Of Which Is Yet To Be Realized.

When Arthur Ashe Plays Tennis, His Purpose Each Day Is To Play The Game In A Way He Has Never Played It Before. It May Be A Backhand He Uses, One That He May Never Have Used Before In That Circumstance. His Play Is A Fresh Integration Of His World At The Instant Of Action. A Really Great Scientist Has The Whole Past At His Disposal. At Any Instant He Is Rebuilding The World, Molecule By Molecule, In His Subconscious. That Is What You Want In An Athlete Or A Scientist.

You Think That The Only Thing That Counts Is The Bottom Line! What A Presumptuous Thing To Say. The Bottom Line Is In Heaven.

Don't Undertake A Project Unless It Is Manifestly Important And Nearly Impossible.

The Role Of Science Is To Be Systematic, To Be Accurate, To Be Orderly, But It Certainly Is Not To Imply That The Aggregated, Successful Hypotheses Of The Past Have The Kind Of Truth That Goes Into A Number System.