When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.
Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution
Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to ackn...
