American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.