Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

One thing you learn early growing up a girl--people always talk, whatever you do, ' Glain said. 'What bliss it must be to be male.

What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.