La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

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.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

We all flow from one fountain.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.