It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about 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.

If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don’t give up.

Every second seems like an eternity if someone you love is in trouble.

I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.

I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

One of the wonderful things about music these days is that it's less cliqueish.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.