The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

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

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.