The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble.

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.