If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

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

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool.

It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our math and physics are so freaking accurate we can say, "Hey, you know what? On this date at this time if we turn Cassini that way we'll see a moon over 2 million kilometers away pass in front of another one nearly 3 million kilometers away." Every morning, I have a 50/50 chance of finding my keys. That kinda puts things in perspective.

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