It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

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

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.

I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision.

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.