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

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.