We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.

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

There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say "Get out of the sun, out of the heat," the air is the same temperature; it's just you're exposed to sunlight.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.