Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder-and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe-a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.

The story of a theory's failure often strikes readers as sad and unsatisfying. Since science thrives on self-correction, we who practice this most challenging …

Details are all that matters: God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable tr…

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

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceiv…

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.