"The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know."
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"Science reveals that all life on Earth is one."
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"What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?"
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"We need more science in the world. Train me."
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"It's my duty to enlighten people."
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"For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed."
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"If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go."
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"Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity."
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"Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology."
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"On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment."
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"The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world."
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"As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!"
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"Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name."
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"We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment."
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"It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars."
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"What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?"
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"The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be."
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"Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it."
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"The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions"
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"People like death and mayhem."
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