Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for.

Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.

still loved but deprived of grace

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.