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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.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
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.
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.
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.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.
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 typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.
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.
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
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?"
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.
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.
I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.
If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.
Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.