When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the Creator to do.
I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn’t. That’s what I fear. I don’t fear death.
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don’t agree.
And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks.
The cosmic perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave – an indication that perhaps flag waving and space exploration do not mix.
Collectively, these findings tell us it’s conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as panspermia.
If one evening you feel sad enough to cry, look up. Your tears will not fall and the starry night may bring joy to your soul.
A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.
Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.
Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. 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.
Science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.
To declare that Earth must be the only planet in the universe with life would be inexcusably big-headed of us.
Curious fact that those who never fail are also those who never truly succeed.
When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you’ve lived your billionth second.
Mount Everest is about as tall as a mountain on Earth can grow before the lower rock layers succumb to their own plasticity under the mountain’s weight.
To learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.
Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion.
Some 14 billion years ago, at the beginning of time, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe fit within a pinhead.
Let’s get China to leak a memo that says they want to build military bases on Mars. We’d be on Mars in twelve months.
In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.