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

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.

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

As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.’ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I’ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

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