Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no scientists picketing outside of churches.