Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here.

The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

We killed 5 terrorists, one committed twicide, The other 2 have been blocked by twitter.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.