You will find hell full of genius
If there is a hell, then that is the place. It is going to be really juicy there! All the film actors, all the film actresses.... Everything that you wanted here will be available there -- all the people who have some color, colorful people: dancers, singers, poets, painters, lovers. You will find hell full of genius.
But fortunately there is no heaven and no hell. All that we have got is this moment.
Religion promises, but never supplies the goods.
Science never promises, but always supplies the goods. Science cannot promise because it is an inquiry.
Science had never promised that there would be electricity. The man who created the first electric bulb was Thomas Alva Edison. Three years he was working to create an electric bulb. All his colleagues by and by left, thinking that he was a crackpot -- nobody had ever heard of such a thing! A few young students remained with him. But by and by, they were also getting bored, because every day the same experiment starts and every evening they find it has failed.
Finally they were also ready to leave. Before leaving, just out of gratitude to the old man, they said to Edison, "Forgive us. We cannot be so patient as you are in your old age, when death can happen any moment. You come every morning so excited: `it is going to happen today!' Sometimes we think either we are mad, or you are mad."
The answer Edison gave is worth remembering. He said, "For three years we have experimented in hundreds of ways. To me, it means that we are coming every moment closer and closer to the right method, because wrong methods are being eliminated. We have knocked on hundreds of doors: yes, we have not found anything, but the number of doors is less every day. One day we are going to knock on the right door. When everything is eliminated, what is left is truth. Doubt is the method of eliminating."
The night he discovered the first bulb, he was so enchanted.... It is understandable. An old man -- his eyes becoming weak, death could take him before the experiment is over -- ultimately found... at three o'clock in the morning, because he had been working the whole night.
Now even the students had left, so there was no need to close the lab at a certain time. Now he was alone, and he was so absorbed at three o'clock he saw the first bulb radiating with light.
His wife was getting upset and bored and angry, and she shouted from the other room, "Are you going to sleep tonight or not? Put that light off!" Edison said, "This is not the old light! You just come in and see! Doubt has succeeded." The wife could not believe her eyes: a new light, with a new source of energy!