Science makes God unnecessary.

When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God. They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.