Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here).

Science is the poetry of reality.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.