I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

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.

Our intimacy with God broadens our influence on earth

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else’s.

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Earth helped him with the cry of blood.