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

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

Facts are true whether or not you believe them.