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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do t...more

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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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Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that sci...more

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If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it'...more

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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. ...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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Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

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In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is ...more

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

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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is g...more