I Have Nothing Against Investment

[t]he Yeoman's Work In Any Science, And Especially Physics, Is Done By The Experimentalist, Who Must Keep The Theoreticians Honest.

What Differentiates Human From Lower-animal Consciousness Is Time. You Can't Explain The Concept Of "tomorrow" To Your Dog. Our Consciousness Is Dominated By Time - We're Constantly Running Simulations Of The Future. Our Brain Is A Prediction Machine. The Hallmark Of Intelligence, Indeed Of Genius, Is The Number And Complexity Of The Feedback Loops We Use In Predicting The Future.

You Cannot Create New Science Unless You Realise Where The Old Science Leaves Off And New Science Begins, And Science Fiction Forces Us To Confront This.

I Used To Watch The Old 'flash Gordon' Series On Tv, And It Was Thrilling To Rocket To The Planet Mongo Every Week. But After A While, I Figured Out That Although Flash Got The Girl And All The Accolades, It Was Really Dr. Zarkov Who Made The Series Work. Without Dr. Zarkov, There Could Be No Flash Gordon.

We're In 'jurassic Park' Territory. If We Go To The Zoo In The Future, We'll Have Zoos For Extinct Animals.