However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places...and that's just at Saturn.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder