It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it..

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverenc….

What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisa….

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How sma….

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we ….

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be..

The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite,….

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and whic….

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena..

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. W….

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid..

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, a….

It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioa….

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such com….

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk..

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pur….

There are many instances in science, where those closest to the intricacies of the subject have a more highly developed sense of its intractability t….

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science..

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival..

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy….

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We wo….