Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.