article_snippet: Nimoy's career also inspired some of the most brilliant minds in space and science.
article_snippet: Nimoy showed a young, nerdy, bullied me that not only could science be important and valued, but it could literally save entire ships, planets, and galaxies of lives," Nimoy said.
article_snippet: As I grew up, Nimoy taught me that reason could be tempered with humor.
article_snippet: And, Molly Desormeaux, an acting student in Montreal, Quebec, said: "Leonard Nemoy is one of the reasons why I still believe that acting can change peoples' lives.