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.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.

Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.