Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge..

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be….

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten….

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind..

If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdot….

We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhab….

We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the e….

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology..

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God….

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of ….

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare bet….

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still..

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world..

We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid a….

In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to gi….

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human..

We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all..

Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thous….

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by ….

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unre….

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no..