What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.