Paulo Polzonoff Jr.

“Today it’s just “the Sun.” Familiarity is the enemy of awe, and for the most part people walk the busy streets with no upward glance. In fact, one of the common bits of advice about the Sun is that we shouldn’t look at it.”
― Bob Berman, The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

“By exchanging the burning-coal idea for the notion of nuclear fusion, science was really trading an amazing wrong idea for an amazing right one. Given the total power emitted by the Sun, which delivers nearly a kilowatt of energy to each square yard of Earth’s sunlit surface every second, and the formula E = mc2, it’s easy to calculate how much of the Sun’s body gets continuously consumed and turned into light. The truth is a little disconcerting: the Sun loses four million tons of itself each second.”
― Bob Berman, The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

“The process by which a boring cloud of plain-vanilla hydrogen gas becomes a blinding ball of white fire is epic in purpose and scale. The result, a stable star such as the Sun with a fourteen-billion-year life span, destined to create puppies and pomegranates, certainly deserves its own holiday. Yet no nation celebrates the Sun’s birth. We do, theoretically, honor its existence each Sunday. In practice, most use that time to sleep as late as possible and thus minimize any awareness of it.”
― Bob Berman, The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

“That we have iodine in our thyroid glands proves that our bodies were fashioned from supernova material.”
― Bob Berman, The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet