Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do?""Like what things?""Jobs, I guess. Friends. Trips. Hobbies.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space...We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?