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People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.
That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day
With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.
I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.
You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.
The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"
Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive
In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.
When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.
Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.
When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to do what's visible to you.
As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
Evil or not, the recording industry kept Auto-Tune on the down-low. Cher's producer forced Auto-Tune to jump suddenly from one pitch to the next.
We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.