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Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, th...more

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The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light ele...more

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If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. … If you got to spend every ...more

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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, ca...more

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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown intere...more

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There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objec...more

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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the m...more

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All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

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I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to...more

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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora...more

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The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

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On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup, will fly so close to Earth, that it wil...more

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Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.