No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to tell it because you know how they connect, then it's a thread that will land right in your mind, body and soul.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination