If you understood the facts they needed no embroidery: all the wonder was already there, the more spellbinding because it was true. - Robert Charles Wilson

Deacon Hollingshead: “The history of the world is written in Scripture, and it ends in a Kingdom.”
Julian Comstock: “The history of the world is written in sand, and it evolves as the wind blows.”

Kait was immediately bored. Children Kaitlin’s age possess no context; one video event is much like another.

Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity...tempered by humility, disciplined with patience.
Science meant looking—a special kind of looking. Looking especially hard at the things you didn’t understand. Looking at the stars, say, and not fearing them, not worshiping them, just asking questions, finding the question that would unlock the door to the next question and the question beyond that.