I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.