Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

If you think you are easily irritated by people, guess what? You irritate other people easily too!

Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.