Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

Employment leaves you bare and empty

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace.

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."

"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.