Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.