Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.