Observations always involve theory.

We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The universe is unfolding as it should.

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality.

Live a colourful life. If you can't, develop your own Photoshop and colour it!

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

If Hillary Clinton did nothing, America'd be in much better shape.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.