"I don't want to live in a world where people don't understand science. That's a world of darkness."

"If you are not in awe of the universe, you are not living."

"The universe is a hostile place. It wants to kill you. But it's also beautiful, and it's worth fighting for."

"The problem with society is not lack of knowledge, but the illusion of knowledge."

"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down."