We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

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.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.