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

Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

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

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

Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.

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.

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.