When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Once upon a time when there was no time.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

15 concubines ain't nothin' to sneeze at.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!