Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

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

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

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

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

The universe does not care what we want.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.