If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.