One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science.
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Mathematics is as old as Man.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
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