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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.
When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.