Occupation: Educator Birth: November 27, 1955
I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community….
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..
The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursu….
When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of….
I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea t….
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Telev….
I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each ….
That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies..
Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it..
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion..
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing..
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it..
There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind..
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better..
The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harv….
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily d….
There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet,….
Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration..
People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing….
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, ne….
You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is ….