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.

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.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

Your courage to take a risk and your ability to accept responsibility will define you.

In a perfect patch of paradise he stays immobile for an eternity while the predawn breath strokes his skin and kisses each vertebrae down his spine.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.