If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Was he a beast if music could move him so?

Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

General Flynn said all the talk about the connections between Trump and his campaign in Russia are nonsense.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.