I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

If science is a pyramid, then the Physics is the base (serves all other branches), and the Astronomy is the top (uses all other branches). Math is the language of this pyramid.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

I'm very interested in science.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.