The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
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