Marches don’t stop markets. - Gregory Benford

Einstein said that the only incomprehensible thing about the universe was that it was comprehensible. But resorting to God forgets what biology says—that our minds came out of the physical world, y’know, through evolution of early brain stems and neural systems to higher levels of complexity.

Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

Puzzled frowns in the audience. Science reporters they might be, but high school chemistry was going a bit too deep for most.