You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

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.

There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.

Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.