The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
“Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.”
“For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.”