In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.

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.

If You Respect Their Preparation, You never Drop the Baton

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Childhood is the best period of life...

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

Money is easy to hide.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me.

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!