When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.

For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.