There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

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

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

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

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.

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

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.