Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.

Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.

Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.