If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Go out as far as you can go and start from there
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.
Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water