In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Feeling your way to knowledge rather than thinking your way, often results in better learning.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two

I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

[Steven] Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase with demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.