The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.