Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers — poets, actors, journalists — they [...] embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don’t fight science and they don’t fight technology.

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"If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth."

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"If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist."

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