If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office.

I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

I don't need my name anywhere.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.