Every star may be a sun to someone.

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?

We can always take but never give.

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.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.