How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

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.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what that is because all they see is something that's been discarded.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled the more I gain.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

While there's life, there is hope.

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first