"I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations."
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"There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no scientists picketing outside of churches."
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"All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names."
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"It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them."
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"In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky-one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?"
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"The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star."
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"Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world."
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"Words that make questions may not be questions at all."
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"For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling."
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"The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no specific influence on my ambitions for that reason. It wasn't really far enough away from Earth to matter to me."
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"The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?"
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"Plenty of people get excited about the universe."
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"Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow."
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"This universe knows about me and my crops."
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"If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations."
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"Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they [producers] are putting in front of me. If they made an attempt to get things right, then I'll criticize them for what they got wrong. If they made no attempt to get things right, and yet they stumble on something that's right, I'll comment on what they got right."
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"As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them."
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"The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats."
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"You can get an Egg McMuffin all day; you just can't get the hamburger all day."
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"Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet."
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