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

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

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

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.

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

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

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.