We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.