Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

We are only intelligent by our own measures

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.