Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.