

“But even as I yearn for it, I fear it. Because the more I see of this cruel world, the less I believe it ends in some pleasant fiction.”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star

“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”
― Death by Black Hole
― Death by Black Hole

“That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind

“Hippocrates wrote: “Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.”
― A Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible
― A Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible
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