Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which eventually become orbiting rocky planets. And voila: a solar system!

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

People like death and mayhem.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.