At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

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.

Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.

Tomorrow we begin a new tomorrow.

Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.

A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.

I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.