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“The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light only those who have experienced it can understand it.”
This tiny cartoon* seems to express so much in 15K of pixels. In the temporary quiet of midnight, on the front porch of a house where Frank and I much later lived, an emblematic scientist searches the starfield–using a tool that is plainly inadequate–but much better than failing to search at all. Clifton Fadiman told the relevant anecdote well:
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* This illustration by Ron Barrett
comes from the April 6, 2005 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.