Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote...

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.

Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.