We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

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

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

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

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.