Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

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

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

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.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.

The business model of racing is not a pretty one.

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals.