We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

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

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

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

What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.