The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

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

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?