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If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered abo...more

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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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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

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I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, di...more

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In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay of th...more

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

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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other p...more

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When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk th...more

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While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

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I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEAR...more

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I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that...more

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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surpr...more

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Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and yo...more

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I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those...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