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I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.
We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.
Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers.
The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.
It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem.
A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.
Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.
A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.
Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.
VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.
True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.
Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.
It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.
Between my participation in Voyager and my role in Cassini, when comes the time, I will die a happy and gratified woman.
To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.
To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one's longevity and health.
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.