Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

We colour the world, Not with the darkness of our pasts, But with the rainbow of our hope.

The reality and the deception are the ‘perceptions’ as of colors- say of black and white in this multicolored world.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

I've always traveled, man, so I'm always out and everywhere.

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.