Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.