Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades.

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

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

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.