By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing, and that's making dreams come true ... How much would you pay for the universe?

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

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

Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.