I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

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

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

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

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.