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

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

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.

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

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

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.