A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

Your god is too small for my universe.

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.