Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

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.

Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.

Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great.

What good is a body if I can't have you?

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.