“We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief...”

“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”

“...primarily the individual is going to study at home.”

“I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.”

“We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”

“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”

“The most successful men work smart, not hard”

“Decided, commit, act, succeed, repeat. The one thing that all the greats have in common is they sweat the small stuff and they pay very close attention to every detail.”

“Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.”

“Life is an experiment, experiment by sending as many ideas in the universe and see which idea takes off and put your heart into that.”

“Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.”

“From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, e...”