We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.