One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

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