"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.

Even better is, 'I aim at the Stars! (but sometimes I hit London)'.

"I Aim at the Stars" was the name of a real biographical movie made about him in the 60s. It feels like that exact title had to have been chosen, at least partly, tongue in cheek.

Just wait until you read what people like Von Neumann thought about preemptively using nuclear weapons.

It turns out that scientific brilliance has basically zero overlap with ethical wisdom. Science is great, but it’s not a replacement for philosophy.