I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.

That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.

If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn't we love and accept all others?

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.