Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Revelation replaced investigation.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths