I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

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.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.