Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace – a physicist is a trained problem solver.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out – and we have only just begun.
We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.
It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
And extracting one molecule’s signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler’s voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It’s hard, but you can do it.
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.