Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.