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.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

I don't need my name anywhere.

There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.