Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.