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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

The moon is out all day. I don't want to shock you.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we're here. And that's astonishing. And that we can understand that, that's the most astonishing.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.

Science is the way in which we know nature and our place within it.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

By the way, most of the light that comes from the sun is green.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

The possibility of genetic modification reminds me of the need for a scientifically literate electorate. Please stay tuned and vote!

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

so long as we each focus only on our individual decisions and their short-term consequences, we will act like renters, not owners of this Earth.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

Any differences we traditionally associate with race are a produce of our need for vitamin D and our relationship to the Sun.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

We all have DNA, and it's nearly the same. In rhesus monkeys, we're close to 93 percent the same. In mice, it's closer to 90 percent overall.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

The(re is no) End

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

We are all aware that evolution happens, because we all have parents.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.

No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

One organism's trash is another organism's treasure, as I like to say.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.

Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about.

There is no debate in the scientific community ... We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.