The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.