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

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

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

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won't feel they're human anymore, to be proved wrong because that's the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.