We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

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

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

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.