If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.

Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra.

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.