I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.