Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

All information is good, even when it is bad.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

People like death and mayhem.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.