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.

I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

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

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.