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

Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.

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