So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager.….

Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; rich….

There are things I cannot say..

All the backstories are there but not talked about..

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like..

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are co….

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without ….

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism..

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do..

Premature optimization is the root of all evil..

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals..

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds..

That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be ….

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you..

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist..

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life ….

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should….

Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible..

The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a pe….

Those who live, live off the dead..

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present..