There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

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 . . .