In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

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

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon; we should be on Mars in ten years." That's if it was driven by exploration, but it's never been driven by exploration.