Tag: Infancy

Bok told him that this was not the right answer. “He said it was like the opera, or poetry,” Helfand told me. “That the right response was because it was what distinguishes us as human.” Astronomy is worthwhile in the way that art is worthwhile. “And so that’s how I became an astronomer.”

This is not the first time that NASA has spent more than twenty-five years and vast resources on a project that might fail. At the end of