I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

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

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.