Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos's ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy. Another insight I really want people to consider is this: everyone has gotten this far. Everyone you meet has made it this far. Nobody is superior to anyone else from an evolutionary standpoint.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.