I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.