I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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.

Your purpose is your why.

Self-education is a sacred act.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!

The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.