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

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That's where science starts.

There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...