16 quotes found
“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
“Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.”
“The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime”
“Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below.”
“The problem with todays world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has th...”
“Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder. But that doesn't make us insignificant, because we are the Cosmos mad...”
“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the co...”
“I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billions of places out there, that we know nothing about. And the fact that we know nothing about them e...”
“There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor. Poltergeist was the first to be discovered. I know, I was curious about their names as...”
“You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You are hastening the demise of everything that exists, bringing forward by your very existence the arr...”
“The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message capable of lifting our spirits in a way that its multitudinous supernatural counterparts are inca...”
“(On the energy radiated by the Sun)It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, an...”
“Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. ...”
“The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has t...”
