Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

We need more science in the world. Train me.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.