Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.