It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?