The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

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

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.