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

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

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