"The great thing about science is that it's a self-correcting enterprise. It doesn't care about your feelings."

"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life telling it to sit down and shut up. Is it any wonder the world is in the mess it's in?"

"I think it's important to remind people that we are all made of stardust. We are all connected to the cosmos."

"The universe is not a hostile place, it's just indifferent."

"If you are scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that difference, I think, is a difference for the better."