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.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.