I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

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.

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

I just watched the entire season of 'Louie' in one flight. What an amazing show.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.