It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

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.

When you feel life at crossroads, you need higher perspective view.

Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.

The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess that's the point in the end

Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

I've gone through a lot of the same things like Britney Spears. I just don't have a mug shot.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.