My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.