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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

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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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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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If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the...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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I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are n...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