Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.