“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.”

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.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Money can’t buy you loyalty.

If you’re able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that’s worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

Life’s a wheel of fortune and y’all can’t buy a vowel.

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.