“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

About Willy Ley

Author • American

Willy Ley was a German-American science writer and a pioneering advocate for rocketry and spaceflight. Born in Berlin, he co-founded the German 'Verein für Raumschiffahrt' (Society for Space Travel) before emigrating to...