I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.

I always knew I'd go to space.

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.