What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Every star may be a sun to someone.

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.