I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.

I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Learning something new is fun.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.

I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.