I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
“I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.”
“I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.”
“I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.”
“When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.”
“For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”
“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.”
“You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.”
“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”
“Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of re...”