But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

Tony smothered the life that me and Ma had built, a furry mould growing over a sweating slab of cheese.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

A better you means a better universe.

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"