I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Scientists tend to risk theories they admire
In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.