I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.

We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.