Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

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.

Your thoughts and actions becomes your world.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.