"Is it very much more exciting to discover we’re on a ball, half of us sticking upside down, it’s spinning around in space, there’s a mysterious force which holds us on, it’s going around a great big glob of gas that’s burning, fueled by a fire that’s completely different than any fire we can make, well now we can make that fire, nuclear fire. That’s much more exciting story to many people than the tales which other people used to make up who worried about the universe, that we were living on the back of a turtle or something like that. They were wonderful stories, but the truth is so much more remarkable, and so what’s the pleasure in physics is that to me is that it’s revealed the truth is so remarkable, so amazing."
