Everyone that you’ll ever met wil know someone that you won’t
Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.
We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it’s going to be heartbreaking.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science – in all of biology.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
If you’re an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don’t prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
Everybody who’s a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.