Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children