For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.