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Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.

I Hope That Every [person] At One Point In Their Life Has The Opportunity To Have Something That Is At The Heart Of Their Being, Something So Central To Their Being That If They Lose It They Won't Feel They're Human Anymore, To Be Proved Wrong Because That's The Liberation That Science Provides. The Realization That To Assume The Truth, To Assume The Answer Before You Ask The Questions Leads You Nowhere.

Neutrinos Alone, Among All The Known Particles, Have Ethereal Properties That Are Striking And Romantic Enough Both To Have Inspired A Poem By John Updike And To Have Sent Teams Of Scientists Deep Underground For 50 Years To Build Huge Science-fiction-like Contraptions To Unravel Their Mysteries.

The Fact Is That People Would Rather Cling When They're Afraid Of Something To A Priori Beliefs Than Rather Open Their Minds About It.

A Significant Fraction Of Evangelical Voters Appear More Likely To Ignore The Candidates' Specific Economic And Foreign Policy Platforms In Favor Of Concerns About Gay Marriage Or Abortion.