Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

I would expunge the word "aptitude" from our vocabulary, because if you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else. And that's all that matters, because in the end, if you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career.

What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.