It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

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.

I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a bit that science has achieved this level of public interest and access. And so I'm simultaneously astonished every day upon recognizing this, and I think it's a good sign for the country and possibly for the world.

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all those folks go-that's three-eighths of an inch above a schoolroom globe, just FYI. That's not very far from Earth. Yes, you are off Earth, but you're not really going anywhere yet. The moon was the only real destination.

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.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.