Shining Stars and Hans Bethe

Arthur Miller, in his autobiography, "Timebends," quoted the great physicist Hans Bethe - who discovered how stars shine - as saying, "Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to think. ..."

Here is another quote from Bethe: "I am not a philosopher."

Perhaps it was a philosophical sense of wonder that made him pursue how stars shine and other mysteries of nature, but certainly it was the scientist that tried to find answers to these by taking up a pencil and trying to think......

Aren't we glad he did? And the great thing is so can each one of us, for

Science is Everywhere.

Does not matter if many of us do not turn out to be Bethe, the joy of trying to understand is reward enough ......