Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

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.

Empathy is easier than anger, in the long-run.

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again.

A word is a small song.

A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person...

We are only as sick as our secrets.

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.