«— Like a life without great music or great literature or great art, a life without science can't be fulfilling to be sure. But it is bereft of something that gives experience, a rich and otherwise inaccessible element of dimension. I mean, think about it from our lowly point in the cosmos we have through the power of thought and exploration touched the very limits of outer and inner space. We’ve come upon laws that tell how light travels and how black holes form, how time elapses and space expands. We've been able to peer back to a brief moment after the beginning of the universe. We've been able to pry apart matter, to figure out the elementary constituents with fantastic accuracy. This is great stuff. This rivals anything that comes out of Hollywood! But yet when we teach science to our kids, we so quickly focus upon the details. We worry about them solving this equation, or understanding this part of the cell, or balancing this reaction. And when you don't have a commensurate focus on taking students out beyond the stars, science becomes lifeless. But yet if science is communicated by showing the big ideas, if science is communicated by showing the exhilaration of discovery, if science is communicated by showing the critical problems from climate changes to the opportunities with stem cells, to the possibilities with nanotechnology... Wow, it comes to life! I have spoken to kids about the Big Bang and black holes, to watch their eyes light up. Man, there’s nothing like it.»

замечательные вдохновляющие слова. если бы кто-нибудь мне такое в детстве сказал.