If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Once upon a time when there was no time.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope.

Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

Every light is not the sun.

Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.

Despatch is the soul of business.

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

Only powerful people have liberty.