I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.