Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

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