Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we're familiar with.