Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012



Twenty years ago, I put this quote at the front of my master's thesis in aerospace engineering:
"The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them."
It was taken from Bradbury's collection R Is For Rocket. Despite his many volumes of science fiction stories, Bradbury actually knew next to nothing about rockets or astronomy or science. That didn't matter. He knew everything about the human heart.

True then. True today. Thank you, Ray. Clear skies.

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