We are one species. We are starstuff.

We can always take but never give.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.

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