Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

- Eric Chaisson

Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but …

- Eric Chaisson

Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.

- Eric Chaisson

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all…

- Eric Chaisson

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty…

- Eric Chaisson

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout…

- Eric Chaisson

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

- Eric Chaisson

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

- Eric Chaisson

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

- Eric Chaisson