I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

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.

Wisdom often comes from those with the least to lose.

Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.