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

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.