1. “One organism’s trash is another organism’s treasure as I like to say.”
2. “Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.”
3. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”
4. “Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.”
5. “Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”
6. “Our goal is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.”
7. “Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.”
8. “If you want grown-ups to recycle just tell their kids the importance of recycling and they’ll be all over it.”
9. “There really is no such thing as race.”
10. “Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.”
11. “The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like an which you don’t.”
12. “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.”
13. “I like to regard myself as someone who’s capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.”
14. “Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.”
15. “I like to regard myself as someone who’s capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.”
16. “The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.”
17. “The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.”
18. “What happens to other species also happens to us.”
19. “Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.”
20. “If you look back on all teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.”
21. “Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, the you’re holding everybody back.”
22. “People and stars are made of the same stuff.”
23. “You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.”
24. “Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.”
25. “One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.”
26. “The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.”
27. “Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.”
28. “In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.”
29. “The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.”
30. “Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.”
