For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Scars are proof we can can survive

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.