Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

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

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

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.

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

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

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.