Occupation: Astrophysicist Birth: October 5, 1958
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it..
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day..
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you..
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they….
There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it confl….
Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent sci….
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting be….
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow..
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that No….
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think..
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true..
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just bec….
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it..
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and y….
Jesus Christ rose up from the tomb. Well, he's the son of God, and now he's like God's spirit at this point. Why would a spirit need to move a rock? ….
I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and ….
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Ev….
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance..
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two.".
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier..
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world..