I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.

My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.