“Progress in science is guided by a sense of curiosity, or the desire t...” — Koichi Tanaka Quote

“Progress in science is guided by a sense of curiosity, or the desire to discover what is currently unknown. On the other hand, progress in technology is guided by a sense of public duty, or the desire to be useful to people.”

“My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.”

“I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.”

“In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.”

“My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.”

“From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.”

“To me, an “expert” is synonymous with an “extremist” because the way to become an extremist is to think in absolute terms and be absolutely sure of them. In other words, it’s all ego. It’s all— “I know this to be true because I can perceive it with my senses or my instruments. Everything else is false.”

“What was arguably the most important voyage of scientific exploration ever to be undertaken arose in a distinctly haphazard fashion.”

“In order to re-engineer man, the “invisible governors” had to create a world populated by “mass man,” rootless individuals cut off from ethnic and religious affiliation who relied not on religion or tradition or the moral codes they propagated, but rather on the opinion of what seemed to be everyone else as propagated by the mass media. The new authority which everyone followed in this regard was science. Science broke taboos; science gave rational permission whereas tradition proposed only irrational restraint.”

“Beneath it all runs an architecture older than belief, carrying us forward unseen.”

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”