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In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.
All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.
Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.
I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.
Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?
There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.
'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.
When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.
Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.
Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.
The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.
It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
You can get an Egg McMuffin all day; you just can't get the hamburger all day.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.
It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.
Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.
The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.
Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.