A Belief May Be Larger Than A

Putting A Man In Space Is A Stunt: The Man Can Do No More Than An Instrument, In Fact Can Do Less. There Are Far More Serious Things To Do Than Indulge In Stunts. . . . I Do Not Discard Completely The Value Of Demonstrating To The World Our Skills. Nor Do I Undervalue The Effect On Morale Of The Spectacular. But The Present Hullabaloo On The Propaganda Aspects Of The Program Leaves Me Entirely Cool.

It Was Through The Second World War That Most Of Us Suddenlyappreciated For The First Time The Power Of Man's Concentrated Efforts To Understand And Control The Forces Of Nature.we Were Appalled By What We Saw.

Science Has A Simple Faith, Which Transcends Utility. Nearly All Men Of Science, All Men Of Learning For That Matter, And Men Of Simple Ways Too, Have It In Some Form And In Some Degree. It Is The Faith That It Is The Privilege Of Man To Learn To Understand, And That This Is His Mission. If We Abandon That Mission Under Stress We Shall Abandon It Forever, For Stress Will Not Cease. Knowledge For The Sake Of Understanding, Not Merely To Prevail, That Is The Essence Of Our Being. None Can Define Its Limits, Or Set Its Ultimate Boundaries.

Give These People Money, Let Them Play, And They'll Come Up With Something.

If Scientific Reasoning Were Limited To The Logical Processes Of Arithmetic, We Should Not Get Very Far In Our Understanding Of The Physical World