: as the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: 'The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.'

As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: 'In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply o…

In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke th…

All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0.…

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the mo…

The universe is hostile only when you do not know its laws. To those who know and obey, the universe is friendly.