1934

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The collection of works by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, translated into English

My ideas on the universe seem to be the only science-based ones to me.

It is subjective indeed.

Let us assume that I am wise. But there have been a great number of wise men of other epochs. And all of them were under a delusion and did not possess complete truth.

The same I think about myself as well – on the basis of this historical truth. The one thing I am sure is that ideas of mine are not harmful for people: for believers and nonbelievers (i.e. people of pure science) alike.

In fact –

1.  Immortality, as theosophists, occultists, et al. understand it, is based on that a pig remains a pig, a wolf remains a wolf, a thief remains a thief or a bit better (a logical concept of the soul).
2. Scientific immortality is in the following: every animal, imperfect human and every matter can re-emerge only as a perfect creature or as plants and similar organisms insensible to pain, in each case they subsist in nothingness, i.e. in inanimate matter, where there is no time, no senses – and billions of years pass unnoticed, as though there are none, and they cannot frighten us.