I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.