“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”
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In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.