...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants’ sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

How old did someone have to be before they could be put to use to make tea?

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Think it over, think it under.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

I have a definition of success.

People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.

"It gets better." - On his campaign against bullying.

There is but one evil, ignorance.