Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.