If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was going on. The real question is Was the religion in the household? The answer is no. Important decisions in the household were executed rationally and secularly. So as a result, the foundations of my reasoning derive not from religion but from the rational analysis of circumstances.

Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.