If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

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.