It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

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.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors

Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.