If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.

(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

Not everyone is going to like science as a subject.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.