“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

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.

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.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

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

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.

Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

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.

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that’s the deal. If we don’t know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side — and but awaits our command.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.