Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.

I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.