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• I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience.
  And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true....
• Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention i
  because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false....
• Please, read the Skeptical Inquirer!
• If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
  But there is a kind of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the good....
• Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic.
  It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone....
• Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic.
  It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone....
• I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder.
  It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it....
• I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelligence?
  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there, and use the word *billions*, and so on....
• Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined
  hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension....