“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.’”

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

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.

Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.