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“Without your enthusiasm, governments spend money on stupid, stupid things. When I was the age of a lot of people in this room, we were putting a man on the moon. That was 50 years ago.” Now, he said, possibly jabbing at Obamacare, “we’re struggling to design websites.” He called for a national “embrace” of science as a means of accomplishing some of America’s greatest dreams.

Actor James Woods, a Hollywood hero for conservatives who’s been outspoken against President Obama and his policies, took the Comic-Con stage in New York to speak on what he saw as a more inspirational subject: America’s future ability to make great scientific leaps and bounds.

Mr. Woods was part of a panel discussion, “Futurescape,” to discuss his new Science Channel show on pioneering scientists and their world-changing discoveries. His presence on the panel isn’t surprising, he said, given his pre-Hollywood roots.

“Years ago, I was a student at MIT,” he said during the panel’s question-and-answer session, according to the Examiner. “I always loved science. And then I took a strange little detour for 45 years in my day job. And as I evolved and became a little older and wiser, I realized that in the world around me, the most important thing — that we could possibly be the same species … and I wondered if we could plan for a future over which we had some degree of control.”

He once worked on a movie, “Contact,” that tailed off a true-life story of Hitler’s conversation at the Olympics being transmitted to outer space, he said. And his appearance at Comic-Con was aimed at spreading the word about one of his first loves: science.

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