Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

I noticed when I was driving around that they changed the name of the Interborough Parkway to the Jackie Robinson Parkway. And the Interborough family is very upset about this.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.