Cosmic Philosophy. Selected Works

The collection includes selected works by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky—a Russian and Soviet self-taught scientist who developed theoretical questions of astronautics, and a thinker with an esoteric orientation who studied philosophical problems of space exploration.
“In my works, I avoid mentioning other works of a similar kind. But that doesn’t mean I value only my own works and don’t value other people’s scientific labor. Everything I write, of course, is inspired by reading books and by the works of other authors. My behavior is explained not by egoism, not by excessive self-confidence, but by the desire to ease both myself and the reader, without piling up names and references. That’s why it’s clear that I’m willing to renounce the priority of everything I have ever reported. Let them consider everything I did to be borrowing—I won’t complain, and I don’t even resort to patenting or asserting my priority anymore. Let me be the last of people of science; that doesn’t offend me.” Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, “Preface to All My Works”