I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.