A collection of excerpts regarding humanity's various pursuits of science throughout time.

When scientists forecast a once-in-a-three-thousand years weather event with divine properties, a boy finds himself the unlikely recipient of its blessing.

When a scientist discovers science-based information that negates his world's established creation myth and belief system, he sends the world into chaos, with some zealots clinging desperately to their dogma, while others attempt to embrace the unknown future.

After discovering the remnants left by an extinct extraterrestrial species, a Jesuit astrophysicist asks the spirit of Father Loyola what there’s left for a Christian like him to believe.

A town has frequent visits from phantom apparitions, and the townspeople have many explanations for the ghosts, ranging from disbelief to hallucination to the idea that humans and phantoms were once a single race.

When a low-budget science fiction television show successfully predicts the discovery of extraterrestrial life, its cult followers investigate its mysterious origins, only to be met with more mysteries.

A scientist notes the discovery of a new chemical compound with physics-defying capabilities.

Aboard a human city ship headed for Proxima b, shadows begin to haunt the sleeping passengers. An engineer commits suicide, and a psychotherapist finds that these apparitions feed on human guilt. The only way to survive is to master and confront the mounds of guilt that each human passenger carries inside herself.

A young American teacher grows close to a troubled student who believes she can echolocate like bats.

Two psychology students investigate a haunted house where an unstable man claims to have lost his children. When they enter the house, they start to believe the man's story.