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"The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn."
"Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us."
"When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet."
"I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough."
"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."
"Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests."
"I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this."
"Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR."
"Our planet has been around only for four and a half billion years. Let's imagine a planet that has life on it such as life is on Earth and it's seven billion years old. Let's say that planet evolved intelligence. Well, that intelligence would be way more advanced than what we call intelligence here on Earth. How long has intelligence been around on Earth as we've come to define it?"
"The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows."
"Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is."
"When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions."
"The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science."
"We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not."
"85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing."
"I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that."
"I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons."
"I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that. I think..."
"I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center."
"If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab."