I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a bit that science has achieved this level of public interest and access. And so I'm simultaneously astonished every day upon recognizing this, and I think it's a good sign for the country and possibly for the world.

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.