We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.

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

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science.