“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.”

It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

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.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’

You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

I believe we are powerful but we don’t use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!