There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.