Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside.

Chaol, " he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

I need you more than I need freedom.

You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.