The open road still softly calls..

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic..

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any..

We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of….

We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own l….

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea,….

The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning..

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-go….

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make..

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power..

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense..

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not fin….

The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppresse….

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fu….

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions..

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours..

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating ou….

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth..

Not all bits have equal value..

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship..

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites ….