I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.