“Circus performers and variety shows will never captivate me in the same way as steppes or rainforests, or the sky's uncountable galaxies and all the billions of light years that separate them.”

“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”

“When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time.""The idea is much too big for my little head.""The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.”

“... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...”

“going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way”

“Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.”

“a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.”