If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

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

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

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.

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.