That particular person didn’t care for the system. He was the Editor-in-chief of a (fictional) journal ‘Science and thought’, dedicated to protecting population from fraud and literally wasn’t afraid of the devil. But he did care about space exploration. The quote was meant to express the muchsimpler message about selective pressure’out there’ that makes ordinary oneupmanship as a habit of mind irrelevant.
That particular person didn’t care for the system. He was the Editor-in-chief of a (fictional) journal ‘Science and thought’, dedicated to protecting population from fraud and literally wasn’t afraid of the devil. But he did care about space exploration. The quote was meant to express the muchsimpler message about selective pressure’out there’ that makes ordinary oneupmanship as a habit of mind irrelevant.