4 Quotes by John N. Bahcall

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we’re about to learn something important.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.