Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

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.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.

Every day without exception - is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!