The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization.