I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'