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

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

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

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

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

Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.