The Large Hadron Collider and the International Space Stations are amazing wonders. It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research. Some people apparently have a problem with this, and they’re generally not the sort of people I like to be around.

It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research.

I wish that were true, but the world spends far more on machines of war than we spend on science.