In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

A soul might very well exist, but we, as physicists, try to measure and quantify everything. So far, no one has been able to create an experiment to do this for the soul. Efforts have been made to weigh the body after death, but each time we find no evidence of a soul. So a soul may very well exist, but it is not a testable theory.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.