Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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.

...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.