WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.

The greatest of people in society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combinations of talents. If everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combination of talents in this world, our society would be transofrmed over night.