Figuring by Maria popova

Kepler knew what we habitually forget - that THE LOCUS OF POSSIBILITIES EXPANDS WHEN THE UNIMAGINABLE IS IMAGINED AND THEN MADE REAL THROUGH SYSTEMATIC EFFORTS. Centuries later, in a conversation with Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke about eh future of space exploration, science fiction patron saint would capture this transmutation process perfectly, " IT PART OF THE NATURE OF MAN TO START WITH ROMANCE AND BUILD TO A REALITY".