So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way."

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Not everyone is going to like science as a subject.

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and everything is moving around us. So even though we know intellectually Earth goes around the sun, the language is still pre-Copernican, as we would call it.