In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

But I think I scraped off most of the burned part,” she would add, overlooking that this included every bit of it that had once been flesh. Happily, all this suited my father. His palate...

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn’t subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and...

The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of only about 1 per cent from Cavendish’s finding.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.