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Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.
It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?
I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.
No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.
When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.
When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.
I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.
A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.
WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.
All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.
Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.
The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.
I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.
I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.
The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.
We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.