“The history of science has shown us that you need the tools first. Then you get the data. Then you can make the theory. Then you can achieve understanding.”<\/p>\n
\n“… I worry that medicine does too many moon shots. Almost everything we do in medicine is a moon shot because we don\u2019t know for sure if it\u2019s going to work.
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\n“People forget. When they landed on the moon, they already had several hundred years of calculus so they have the math; physics, so they know Newton\u2019s Laws; aerodynamics, you know how to fly; rocketry, people were launching rockets for many decades before the moon landing. When Kennedy gave the moon landing speech, he wasn\u2019t saying, let\u2019s do this impossible task; he was saying, look, we can do it. We\u2019ve launched rockets; if we don\u2019t do this, somebody else will get there first.
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\n“Moon shot has gone almost into the opposite parlance; rather than saying here is something big we can do and we know how to do it, it\u2019s here is some crazy thing, let\u2019s throw a lot of resources at it and let\u2019s hope for the best. I worry that that\u2019s not how \u201cmoon shot\u201d should be used. I think we should do anti-moon shots!”
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