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

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

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

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.

So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.