The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right...

The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message capable of lifting our spirits in a way that its multitudinous supernatural counterparts are incapable of matching. It teaches...

I’m comfortable with the unknown — that’s the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them...

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines...

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we’re all going to die, we’ve all got to live in the meantime…

(On the energy radiated by the Sun)It’s four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked...

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.