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.

The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote...

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.

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