“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.”

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.

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.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

There’s another advantage to being poor – a doctor will cure you faster.

Absence – that common cure of love.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns–fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns–seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!