I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.