chris's quotes

"I would rather discover a single fact, even a small one, than debate the great issues at length without discovering anything at all."

"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the steward of life's continuity on Earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."

"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It... Stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.

Man is... related inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable... plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time. It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.