You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.