And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

What's up with chicks and science?

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

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.