Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all those folks go-that's three-eighths of an inch above a schoolroom globe, just FYI. That's not very far from Earth. Yes, you are off Earth, but you're not really going anywhere yet. The moon was the only real destination.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.

In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new physical phenomenon that we have yet to discover and have now discovered in that moment than it is a spiritual force coming down from God making something happen in front of you.