The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

The theory of evolution was not formally published until shortly before Faraday's death. Evolution was yet to be discovered during Faraday's life. Also, I don't think that Michael Faraday would claim that the Earth is extraordinarily young.

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.