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Think Of All The Nonsense You Had To Learn In Psychology Courses. None Of Which Was Testable. None Of Which Was Measurable. We Had Behaviorism, Freudian Psychology, All Of These Theories That You Learn In Psychology. Totally Untestable. Now, We Can Test It, Because Physics Allows Us To Calculate Energy Flows In The Brain.

So Often, Science Fiction Helps To Get Young People Interested In Science. That's Why I Don't Mind Talking About Science Fiction. It Has A Real Role To Play: To Seize The Imagination.

Some People Are A Little Bit Afraid About The Future Because They See All These Gadgets And Gizmos Coming Down The Pike And They Think They're Too Old To Learn All This New Stuff. But Eventually They Begin To Realize, 'hey, Some Of This Stuff Is Useful.'

I Want To See Us To Explore Outer Space. But I Want To Do It Safely, Without The Loss Of Human Life, And Democratically: Where Is The Free-wheeling Debate On This Question? Only One Force Can Stop This Mission: The Will Of The American People. They Have Not Been Asked. Do They Want To Endanger Their Loved Ones, Their Industry With This Launch? One Force Is More Powerful Than Plutonium, The Spirit Of The American People United.

Beyond Work And Love, I Would Add Two Other Ingredients That Give Meaning To Life. First, To Fulfill Whatever Talents We Are Born With. However Blessed We Are By Fate With Different Abilities And Strengths, We Should Try To Develop Them To The Fullest, Rather Than Allow Them To Atrophy And Decay. ... Second, We Should Try To Leave The World A Better Place Than When We Entered It.