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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 i...more

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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to t...more

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I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had t...more

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I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and...more

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These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scienti...more

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Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innova...more

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I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launc...more

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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close...more

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Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science lit...more

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You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean...more

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I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildi...more

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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents m...more

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What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would b...more

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There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes. Remember wha...more