People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.