I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

He broke through the barriers of the skies.

We need not hesitate to admit that the Sun is richly stored with inhabitants.

That planet has a considerable but moderate atmosphere. So that the inhabitants probably enjoy a situation in many respects similar to ours.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

I think I always stand up for what I believe in.

To be a Jew is a destiny