And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

The story you live is the ripple you leave.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.