Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

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.

We all fall on hard times, ” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.

Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

... everything I do, I choose very, very carefully, because if I don't like it, I can't make you like it.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.