We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.

In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.