A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

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.

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

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

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.