We are one species. We are starstuff.

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.