I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

When my first attempt failed, fear brought into me a shock... I gave a smile, only to realize that my shock was gone. A smile is a shock absorber!

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Dancers don’t think about things; they just do them.

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.