The Purpose Of Education Is Not To

The Amazing Thing Is That Every Atom In Your Body Came From A Star That Exploded.

Teaching And Writing, To Me, Is Really Just Seduction; You Go To Where People Are And You Find Something That They're Interested In And You Try And Use That To Convince Them That They Should Be Interested In What You Have To Say.

Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.

Religious Leaders Need To Be Held Accountable For Their Ideas.

We Live At A Very Special Time . . . The Only Time When We Can Observationally Verify That We Live At A Very Special Time!