The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me.