It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.