A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

I've introduced legislation to say, "For right now, let's stop it," from about 34 countries.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.