Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.