If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.