For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other—Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.

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.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl.

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

It takes madness to find out madness.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!