Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

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

When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who do and you're going to protect the science curriculum in the classroom because you understand the meaning and the value of it. And science discoveries don't scare you. You say, "Give me more science", not less. "Give me more technology", not less.