And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.