It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

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.

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

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