You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.