The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.