"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
"We are all star stuff."
"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
"La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia"
"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"