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

If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

We need more science in the world. Train me.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.