It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Journalists are never hungry. They swallow everything.

Act as you wish.

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.

You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

I want to be the best on the biggest stage possible, [but] I obviously do not get to decide where that is.

Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You'll get there, I promise.