Celebrate Our Brief Moment In The Sun

The Root Cause Of The Looming Energy Problem - And The Key To Easing Environmental, Economic And Religious Tensions While Improving Public Health - Is To Address The Unending, And Unequal, Growth Of The Human Population. And The One Proven Way To Reduce Fertility Rates Is To Empower Young Women By Educating Them.

Our Modern Conception Of The Universe Is So Foreign To What Even Scientists Generally Believed A Mere Century Ago That It Is A Tribute To The Power Of The Scientific Method And The Creativity And Persistence Of Humans Who Want To Understand It.

The Illusion Of Purpose And Design Is Perhaps The Most Pervasive Illusion About Nature That Science Has To Confront On A Daily Basis.

The Ultimate Arbiter Of Truth Is Experiment, Not The Comfort One Derives From One's A Priori Beliefs, Nor The Beauty Or Elegance One Ascribes To One's Theoretical Models.

The Real Thing That Physics Tell Us About The Universe Is That It's Big, Rare Event Happens All The Time — Including Life — And That Doesn't Mean It's Special.