Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.