Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.