I always wanted to be respected for my mind.

I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.

Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.

If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you have to patent some new idea. You get to Mars...well, how do we get the water from the soil? I gotta invent a new device that will do that. And the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, how can we use that? Can we breathe the oxygen from the carbon dioxide?

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.