A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

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

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

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

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.