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...
Science is the best idea humans have ever had.
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.
Science rules!
The(re is no) End
Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
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.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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...
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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.
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.
...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...
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.