Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

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

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.