But I could be wrong.

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.

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

Art is a protest against death.

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

I don't have to listen to anything you have to say.

If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.