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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.
We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.
Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.
Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.
That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.
Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.
The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.
The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).
Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.
Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.