Forget Jesus. The Stars Died So That

We All Trust Each Other To Some Extent. We Have To Rely On Experts To Some Extent, But We Should Learn To Be Sceptical.

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.

People Are Interested In Science, But They Don't Always Know They're Interested In Science, And So I Try To Find A Way To Get Them Interested.

Every Atom In Your Body Came From A Star That Exploded. And The Atoms In Your Left Hand Probably Came From A Different Star Than Your Right Hand. It Really Is The Most Poetic Thing I Know About Physics: You Are All Stardust.

Philosophy Used To Be A Field That Had Content, But Then Natural Philosophy Became Physics, And Physics Has Only Continued To Make Inroads. Every Time Theres A Leap In Physics, It Encroaches On These Areas That Philosophers Have Carefully Sequestered Away To Themselves, And So Then You Have This Natural Resentment On The Part Of Philosophers.