Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

With hope, we can endure any hardship.

My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds.

The strain of Christian service can result in sickness . . . I have known Christian workers who have risked their lives and health in serving the Lord.

Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.