Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.

You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.