Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.