Halley shattered their monopoly, beating them at their own game. A game that no scientist had ever played before: Prophecy. -S01E03 - Neil deGrasse Tyson

This universality of physical laws drives scientific discovery like nothing else.

Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.

The Theory of Evolution, like the Theory of Gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on earth is not only solid science, in my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience. (From the second Cosmos: ASO episode, Some of the Things That Molecules Do.)