wizard

16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.