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“... as generations of undergraduates have been taught – that a painting is not reality? No, says Timothy Ferris, because Magritte wouldn’t have taken that much trouble to tell us something so crass. ‘The danger that people will try to smoke paintings of pipes or eat paintings of pears does not rank high among the hazards confronting the working ...”

“... technical story into a thought-provoking drama, though his eagerness to be human can go too far. Timothy Ferris’s new book, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, charts mankind’s attempts to understand the origin and scope of the universe. The ancients thought that the sky hung low overhead, that the stars were just out of reach. To Heraclitus the Sun was ...”

“... hysterical can as easily leave you wondering if you heard anything at all. ‘Now, I come in on a Ferris wheel,’ Dylan opens the last verse of the song, a hint of delight in his voice (why not, after coming up with an entrance worthy of the mythic Texas wrangler Pecos Bill?), ‘and boys, I sure was slick. I come in like a ton of bricks, laid a few tricks ...”