Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".

Revelation replaced investigation.

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

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us.

Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.