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

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

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

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.