Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.