If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.