The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.