Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like...
Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist - covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but...
It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.
You are exporting disorder {in the form of heat into the Universe} now as you read this book. You are hastening the demise of everything that exists, bringing forward by your very existence the...
If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.
Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours...
God created… light and dark, heaven and hell - science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created everything in the universe with an opposite. Including matter itself, antimatter
Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the sea....
Who do we think we are - we small creatures with three - pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the...
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Fifth is Q, the amplitude of the irregularities in the cosmic microwave background, which equals 10
Light gave birth to the existence. Existence gave birth to reality. Reality gave birth to eternity. Eternity gave birth to time. Time gave birth to life. The past gave birth to the future. The future...
In the beginning, there was physics.
The infinite zero of a black hole - mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely - punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...