If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

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.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.