I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?