The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
From Lawrence M. Krauss
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.
I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.
It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption.
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
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