Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

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To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

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We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.

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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

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The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.

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God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

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