Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

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.

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!