Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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.

I want to be the reason you look at your phone when you wake up in the morning and smile

Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.