I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

You can get an Egg McMuffin all day; you just can't get the hamburger all day.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.