All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.
Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.
Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.