Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear.

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today.

What do you do?" I ask. "I live.""I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer.

This kiss was hello.It was I've missed you, I've craved you, I've never forgotten you.This kiss was love.

I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.

When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.