Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.