Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology.
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
