I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.