When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.
As we get older, things seem less important.
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics
[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.
An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.