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

I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

I say to the grown-ups, 'If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we've observed in the universe that's fine. But don't make your kids do it.'

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.