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

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

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.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Don’t let anyone tell you to change who you are.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.