“In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why the stars are in the sky. Either you know and you’re alive or it’s all nonsense,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“I am a child of the Milky Way. The night is my mother. I am made of the dust of stars. Every atom in my body was forged in a star. When the universe exploded into being, already the bird… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein),… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Nancy According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
