So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been di….

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths..

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves..

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen..

The visions we offer our children shape the future..

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky..

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees..

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way ….

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept w….

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make ….

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze..

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature..

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity..

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pal….

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to b….

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir..

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe..

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in ….

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promi….

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars..

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy..