When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.