To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

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.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

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

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