To declare that Earth must be the only planet in the universe with life would be inexcusably big-headed of us.
Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment impl...
I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journa...
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be train...
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.
I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.
There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited so...
Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that in...
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes,...
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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 science literacy is the most important kind of li...
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT
Stephen Hawking the reputation of being the smartest person alive. Most of us agree.
Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science...