For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

It's easier to die when you have lived than it is to die when you haven't.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success