“I mean, we let you own a semiautomatic rifle with no questions asked, ...” — Bill McKibben Quote

“I mean, we let you own a semiautomatic rifle with no questions asked, and you're free to drive a giant Escalade down the street even if you can barely see over the front bumper. But you can't hang a solar panel from the balcony of your apartment? Don't tread on my arrays, dude.”

“Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.”

“Knock-knock-knock”

“These mysteries about”

“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”

“The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.”

“For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.”