When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction.

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