Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.

As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.

I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.

People know a planet when they see one, and I think that's a pretty darn good test, in fact, for planethood.

Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.

There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a mission I led - was considered the last planet. We now know there are thousands of other - possibly inhabited - planets.

If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

And thanks to all those science projects, I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience.

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.

But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.

And men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house.

Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.