"I always thought that my job was to think beyond what was known. I started reading Alfred North Whitehead in sixth or seventh grade; I'm reading him because I like space. I didn't follow the math but I got the general idea. You gotta take what you know and go forward. You've got to come up with something different. It's not what has been done; it's what hasn't been done." (paraphrase: 4 minutes into the video.)
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