We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.