When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory tower and then there's everybody else, and I never could buy into that wall that's been put up by so many people over the decades and even the centuries.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.