The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more."

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.