"Why was there a Big Bang? What, if anything, came before? What mechanisms generated the exponential inflation of the …"

"The color gauge theory postulates the existence of eight massless particles, sometimes called gluons, that are the ca…"

"... If a distant galaxy is moving relative to us, its entire spectrum is Doppler-shifted in frequency. Its spectral l…"

"... Why is the muon, some dumb particle, 200 times heavier than the electron? Why is the proton about 2,000 times hea…"

"All kinds of questions remain. Many have to do with cosmology. How did the universe originate? How did the galaxies b…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"