If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more …

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs - in time, in space, and in pote…

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

'Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the pres…