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 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.

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

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.