"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle."

"The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth."

"Science is a self-correcting process."

"The price of skepticism is that you are occasionally fooled. The price of credulity is that you are often fooled."

"We are a way for the universe to know itself."