What Do You Care What Other People Think?

It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance,the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought,to proclaim the value of this freedom;to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed;and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

The only difference for me and Arlene was, instead of fifty years,it was five years.It was only a quantitative difference-- the psychological problem was just the same.the only way it would have become any different is if we had said to ourselves,"but those other people have it better,because they might live fifty years."But that's crazy.Why make yourself miserable saying things like,"why do we have such bad luck?What has God done to us?What have we done to deserve this?"--all of which,if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart,are irrelevant and unsolvable.They are just things that nobody can know.Your situation is just an accident of life.