WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn't even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn't need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they're going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.