Glen Steen

“I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Imagine a world where nations find the search for life in the universe more interesting than the taking of life on Earth.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“At $7.5 million, this represents ten minutes of military spending, out of their $400§ billion annual budget.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Letters from an Astrophysicist

“Jupiter’s moon Europa has enough H2O that its heating mechanism—the same one at work on Io—has melted the subsurface ice, leaving a warmed ocean below. If ever there was a next-best place to look for life, it’s here. (An artist coworker of mine once asked whether alien life forms from Europa would be called Europeans. The absence of any other plausible answer forced me to say yes.)”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry