In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

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.

Every great dream has no defined parameters, out of fear we set the limitations.

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

Religion is the opiate of the people.

You can go as far as you want to go.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.