As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.