I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things... →
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a... →
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition... →
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all... →
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in... →
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life... →
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to... →
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us... →