Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

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.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

One thing we have to do: Repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare.

I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.