The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube. And in our case, what we're communicating here to people is not necessarily something they want to hear. And so, our demeanor - how we deliver this message - takes on crucial, crucial importance.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

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.

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

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

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

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