The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.

thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes

Disability can be no handicap.

The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.