The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

C. "Law of Conservation of Muons" Columbia University University of California-Berkeley United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission) (Feb. Weinberg places the cancellation of the SSC in the context of a bigger national and global socio-economic crisis and not just for science.