From time to time, I meet someone who will say something like, I am not afraid of dying. I don't buy it. Everyone is afraid of dying. It's part of the instinct that helps us survive as a species. It's...
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Science is the best idea humans have ever had.
The(re is no) End
Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
Science rules!
We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. Wh...
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
They avoid the exploration of evolution, because it reminds us all that humankind may not be that special in nature’s scheme. What happens to other species also happens to us.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Put another way, I love all of you dog lovers, but I have to spoil your fun a little with a fundamental truth. There is, in an important evolutionary sense, no such thing as a specific breed of dog. I...
...I suspect everyone there can reason along the lines I described...It's just that when it comes to evolution, and especially to the related realization that we are all pretty small bits of the unive...