We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.