Enjoying science shouldn't be rocket science.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.