Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain.

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.

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

They danced by the light of the moon.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

God made me an Indian.

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.