Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.