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.

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.

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 only gratification that science denies to us is deception.