I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

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

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.