I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe. . . we are completely irrelevant.
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.