If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves..

Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. I….

There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of ….

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the An….

We are made of starstuff..

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves..

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring..

We can always take but never give..

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men..

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills m….

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the ….

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature..

As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a very plausible case can be ma….

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately a….

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of phys….

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth..

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe..

Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. To….

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong..

An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, mag….

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the s….