I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death.

No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

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.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.