"...that it is better to understand the universe as it is than to pretend that it is something it is not."

"The universe is not a toy. It is a mystery."

"It is an astonishing thing to be alive in the universe, and we should celebrate it every day."

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made of trees, with flexible parts on which are imprinted many curious squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another hum…"

"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir up a tingling sensation, a slight challenge for the nerves, a faint foreboding, as if we were appr…"