If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.