Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you.
Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.
So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life