Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.