We are made of starstuff.

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.