I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.