Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

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.

Never lose hope, for all the interweaved strings will soon straighten out.

Through youthe world learnsto recognize itself— as heaven.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

Steal my stuff off the internet wherever you can and don't apologize. Buy the CDs and DVDs from my site and feel free to burn 'em and share 'em. Then come to the show.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

[Goodman] became famous (or notorious) for staring at a player he didn't like. It was called 'the ray' by his men.