Just try telling a teenager that he’s a conformist. Ha! It’s safer to tweak a tiger’s whiskers. Yet who’s most influenced by fads and fashions? Who i… - Dmitri Bilenkin

What is the aim of science?
"What?"
"Man's happiness. If science doesn't make men happier, what good is it? Knowledge is power, a weapon, and if the scientist doesn't care where it's aimed, what makes him different from a mercenary soldier?"

There are no uninteresting fates, and each man takes away the universe when he dies.

If you’ve ever heard a physicist trying to explain to a mere mortal the meaning of quantum mechanics or the theory of relativity, you’ll understand our state. Some waves or other of time overlapping so as to create time splashes that broke off from their substratum into supratime and could be controlled – that’s all I got out of Lyova’s lectures and the popular articles written by my fellow journalists. But in the long run I wasn’t too upset about it. We use electricity without knowing a thing about electrodynamics, and I have yet to see anyone who was too bothered by that fact to go on living.