Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It's your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.

If you still believe that aliens would travel hundreds of light years to carve temporary graffiti in our wheat, then your imagination is one of the seven wonders of the world, and should be bronzed.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science.

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

By expressing our unique talents and using them to serve others, we will experience unlimited love, abundance, and true fulfillment in our lives.

Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.” – Chloe Traeger

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.