Science is the only religion of mankind.

That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

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

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

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