"The universe is full of mysteries waiting to be solved."

"The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth."

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some effort to grasp. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be easy to do what the truth demands. But none of that mak…"

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle."

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made of trees, with flexible parts on which are imprinted many dark squiggles. But it is still a world of strong emotion, of thought, of revelat…"