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"But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets."
"The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student."
"This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win."
"Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me."
"Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on things we never knew you could have. They bring joy. They explore inner human emotion, and at its best, the full dynamic range of that emotion."
"I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread."
"If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life."
"I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office."
"I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by it, because any time you have a bigger perspective today than you did yesterday, it's got to be only for the good of your mind, your body, your soul."
"Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them."
"No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things."
"The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth."
"Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us."
"I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others."
"Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights."
"There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example."
"I don't need my name anywhere."
"It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science."
"Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job."
"There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around."