Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

There are photons that have been traveling for 30,000 years, and I'm... snatching them from this journey and planting them into my digital detector. And then I started feeling bad for the photon, and I said maybe it wanted to continue but I got in its way. But then I said, no, those are probably happier photons than the one that slammed into the mountainside that will go unanalyzed and will not contribute to the depth of our understanding of the universe.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.