Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to see, Earth can provide plenty of danger of its own.

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

I never had a sense of home.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn’t even know was there.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.