I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

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.

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

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

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.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.