I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

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.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

Because that's what Hermione does, ' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

The most effective way to improve productivity is to eliminate work.