I don't need my name anywhere.

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.