Start with romance and build to a reality
I think it’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality. There’s hardly a scientist or an astronaut I’ve met who wasn’t beholden to some romantic before him who led him to doing something in life.
— Ray Bradbury, 12 Nov 1971
From the book Mars and the Mind of Man
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