Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.

We are the universe experiencing itself.

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

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.