“As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.”

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.

If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.

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

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Time is the best killer.

What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn’t matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that’s when we need those guys to come through.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

Dance Moms’ was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had in my life!

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.