Alex Petrov's Interests and Hobbies

The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination--stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern--of which I am a part--perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. [...] What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvellous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined.
Richard Feynman

• The Common Enemy
• The Cosmos and Our Place in It
• Science as a Candle in the Dark
• The Value of Science
• Science and Democracy
• The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder
• Complicated "Simplicity"
• The Gift of Apollo
• The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
• The Renaissance man
• Where Are the Geniuses of Today?
• What People Want
• Near-death experiences and the controversy surrounding them
• The Fear of Death
• An earlier list of Alex's favorite quotations