Depression is sadness gone wrong

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

There is zero evidence for god.

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Oh sky...I won't ask so much as to become the sun or the moon, just one of the stars in between...

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

I don't really consider myself a "singer." I am getting more comfortable singing every day, which is great.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.