Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.