Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.
We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.
This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do.
We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
I learned at that young age that sometimes a really big chance pays off.
I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.
