Don't tell Ed I said this.
Maybe you have to be a little crazy to discover stuff 
that no one thought was there to notice.
Gotta be a little out there. A little odd.
Painting for me is a spiritual experience.
[Richard Gott] I don't know how many people
 have painted the entire universe on a single canvas.
I was taking calculus exams in 20 minutes. 
Perfect score!
[Elaine Walker] He actually thought it would be cool 
to be able to hear his celestial orbits with my music.
It fed his ego. Which is big. But deservedly so. Because he was doing really good and interesting work.
I was the best.
Can you go to the moon 
without using your engines?
If you could discover how to do that, 
it would be revolutionary.
In an institution like JPL, 
they want to keep things the way they are.
Because if we do something different...
We could have problems.
I was called into the associate directors office at JPL.
My world was over.
He was more like this bewildered kid than a rocket scientist.
What really helped me was I started doing paintings. 
To express myself. And the paintings calmed me down.
I got this inner confidence that 
everything was gonna work.
[Neil Tyson] Maybe the day will come where the most talented, committed, focused people in the world
Are given free rein to create. Wherever they step.
That'd be a fun world to live in.
