In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)Only my heart. (Cal Remus)

One single sentence, one frame of film, and abracadabra! the story’s wings would take her to another lost world, another magic realm that was ready to be explored.

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.