God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

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

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally.

I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.