Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.