For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be “of Venus” ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can’t blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession.