"Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen."
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"There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that."
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"Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other."
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"It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents."
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"People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book."
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"NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery."
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"We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore."
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"A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial."
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"I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted."
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"I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them."
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"I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all."
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"They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift."
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"Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil."
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"If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?"
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"To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting."
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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 about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth."
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"Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe"
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"Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me."
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"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."
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"During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward."
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