Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

The covers of this book are too far apart.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

We become a master of something only when we know the truth of it. Similarly, when we know the truth of our soul and the oneness of the Universe then we are a Master of Life.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

Practice makes perfect.

Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.

I don't live in the present, I Am The Present.

Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.