Dave Barry Quotes

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.

It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television, and there really was no going back for me at that point, and then I went on to study space science and then get my Ph.D., then go aboard and work in the European Space Agency.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.