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I Tell Personal Stories Associated With Aspects Of The Theory, And I Hope They Are Interesting And Compelling. I Don't Feel You're Going To Change A Grownup's Mind In One Reading. People Have To Be Exposed To Scientific Ideas Over And Over Again For Years. It's Also Not A Textbook.

One Of The Drawbacks Of English Is You Can't Spell Things By Hearing Them.

America Has Had Many Other Discoverers Besides Columbus, But He Seems To Have Made More Satisfactory Arrangements With The Historians Than Any Of The Others.

We Are Special In The Sense That We Can Know Our Place In The Cosmos. We Can Know Our Place In Space. We Are At Least One Of The Cosmos's Ways Of Knowing Itself. That Fills Me With Reverence And Joy. Another Insight I Really Want People To Consider Is This: Everyone Has Gotten This Far. Everyone You Meet Has Made It This Far. Nobody Is Superior To Anyone Else From An Evolutionary Standpoint.

If Nasa Is To Reach Beyond The Moon And Someday Reach Mars, It Must Be Relieved Of The Burden Of Launching People And Cargo To Low Earth Orbit. To Do That, We Must Invest More In Commercial Spaceflight.