They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.