I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no specific influence on my ambitions for that reason. It wasn't really far enough away from Earth to matter to me.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?

No one is dumb who is curious.

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

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